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Elijah's abatementEliah's abatement
Elijah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.Eliah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.
London: printed by E.T. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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That promise of God to the ⟨p. 50⟩Jews, 1Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, was not to be literally understood, as the Scribes doted, Matth. 17.10. as if Elijah had been personally to rise again from the dead, before the Revelation of the Messiah: but foretold of John the Baptist, that he should stand up in the Spirit and power of Elijah, as the Harbinger of Jesus Christ; and wherein was this power to be exerted? Mark that, for it is very observable, Luk. 21.16. Many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God; and, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; therein the Baptist was another Elijah, for, as Elijah turned back the Idolatrous Israelites to the true worship of the Lord their God, so did John the Baptist, 3by preaching the doctrine of repentance, thereby preparing them for the Ministry of Jesus ⟨p. 51⟩Christ; turn many to the Lord, so it is applied in the third verse of that third Chapter of St. Matthew, This is he that was spoken of by Isaiah the Prophet, &c.
That promise of God to the ⟨p. 50⟩Jews, 1Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, was not to be literally understood, as the Scribes doted, Matth. 17.10. as if Elias had been personally to rise again from the dead, before the Revelation of the Messiah: but foretold of John the Baptist, that he should stand up in the Spirit and power of Elijah, as the Harbenger of Jesus Christ; and wherein was this power to be exerted? Mark that, for it is very observable,